KIMSOOJA |
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Born 1957, Taegu, Korea |
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Education and Residencies |
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| Present 1998-99 1992-93 1984-85 1980/84 |
Lives and works in New York World Views-Artists in Residence at World Trade Center, New York Artists in Residence, P.S.1 Museum, New York Lithography studio at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (French Government Scholarship) Graduate Painting Dept. of Hong-IK University Graduate School, Seoul |
Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2007 | Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Kewenig Gallery, Cologne
A Wind Woman, La Fabrica, Madrid |
| 2006 |
To Breathe – A mirror woman (Respirar - Una mujer espejo), a site-specific installation at the Crystal Palace, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid To Breathe / Respirare, a site-specific installation at La Fenice Theater, in conjunction with a joint solo exhibition at Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice To Breathe: Invisible Mirror/Invisible Needle, Theatre du Chatelet, Nuit Blanche, Paris Kimsooja, Magasin 3, Stockholm A Wind Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, New York A Wind Woman, The Project, New York |
| 2005 | Journey into the World, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Seven Wishes and Secrets, MIT List Gallery, Cambridge Conditions of Anonymity, The 59th Minute & performance at Time Square, Creative Time, New York Bottari, Cologne 2005, Kewenig Gallery, Cologne |
| 2004 | A Needle Woman, Out Video - 7 outdoor video screen projection, Yekaterinburg, Russia Videos in Progress, The RISD Museum, Rhode Island Kimsooja, Galerie Raffaella Cortese, Milan |
| 2004-2003 | Conditions of Humanity, traveling solo show, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, PAC, Milan, from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon |
| 2003 | Kim Sooja, Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw Mandala: Zone of Zero, The Project, New York A Mirror Woman - The Ground of Nowhere, Crossings 2003: Hawaii/Korea, Honolulu City Hall, Hawaii |
| 2002 | A Laundry Woman, Kunsthalle, Wien A Laundry Woman, Image Passage, Musee-Chateau, Annecy A Mirror Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, New York |
| 2001 | A Needle Woman, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/ MOMA, New York A Needle Woman, Kunsthalle, Bern Bottari 2001, Sprengel Museum, Hanover Kim Soo Ja, INOVA, Milwaukee A Laundry Woman, Palazzo Delle Poste, Trieste |
| 2000 | A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery, Seoul A Needle Woman, ICC, Tokyo |
| 1999 | A Needle Woman, CCA Kitakyushu
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| 1997 | Sewing into Walking, MAGASIN, Centre d’Art Contemporian National de Grenoble A Laundry Field/Sewing into Walking Looking into Sewing, Oakville (Centennial Gallery) Ontario, Canada Deductive Object, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya Bottari, Choreographed by Christopher House, Performed by Toronto Dance Theater, Conceptual Scenic design by Kim Sooja, Harbourfront Premiere Dance Theater, Toronto |
| 1994 | Sewing into Walking, Gallery Seomi, Seoul |
| 1992 | Kim Soo-Ja, Hankook Gallery, Seoul (The 11th Suknam Fine Art Awards show)
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| 1991 | Kim Soo-Ja, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
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| 1989 | Kim Soo-Ja, On Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 1988 | Kim Soo-Ja, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea |
Selected Group Exhibitions & Two Person Shows |
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| 2007 |
ArTempo: where time becomes art, Palazzo Fortuny, The 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice Passage du Temps - A selection of works from the François Pinault Foundation, Tri Postal, Lille GOING STAYING. Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art, Kunst Museum Bonn, Bonn From the Earth to the Moon, Castello di Rivoli, Torino Á l’horizon de Shangri la, FRAC Lorraine, Lorraine Equatorial Rhythms, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo Void in Korean Art, Leeum Samsung Museum, Seoul Timeout! Art and Sustainability, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein Listening Awry, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario Scenes and Sequences - Peter Blum Editions, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau Critical Mass, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern Speed 3: Contrarreloj (Against the clock), IVAM Institute Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York Post Object, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto Video Atlas Americas, Automatica, Rio de Janerio An Interpersonal Journey, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul Gestures of Infinity, Minoriten Kultur Graz, Graz Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relations, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden Manifesting Emptiness, Rymer Gallery at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Micro-Narratives, 48th October Salon, Cultural Centre, Belgrade Pawnshop, e-flux, New York Witnessing the Moment, Prague Contemporary Art Festival, The Vinohrady Theater, Prague Momentos Estelares-Photography in the 20th Century, The Circulo de Bellas Artes and the Consejería de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid Existencias, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León |
| 2006 |
Art, Life & Confusion, October Art Salon, Belgrade The 2nd Architectural Biennial Beijing, The Great Hall of The National Museum of China, Beijing Five Days Until the End of Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Casper David Friedrich Die Erfindung Der Romantik, Museum Folkwang, Essen, traveled to Hamburger Kunstahalle, Hamburg With body and soul - over transcendence in the art since the '1960's, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Germany New Mystics, Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands The Missing Peace, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles traveled to Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago Group Show, Art Center Beursschouwburg, Brussels NowHere Europe - Trans:it. Moving Culture Through Europe, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest Cut and Paste - New Identities, New Territories, Makor Steinhardt Center, New York Allegories of Displacement, Westport Art Center, Westport (Connecticut) |
| 2005 | Always a Little Further, The 51st Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice Art Circus-Jumping from the Ordinary, Yokohama Triennial 2005, Yokohama Marking Time, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Getty Center, Los Angeles Irreducible, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, traveled to Miami Art Central, Miami, Bronx Museum of Art, New York Introspections, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Domicile - Private/Public, Musee D'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne The Giving Person, Palazzo della Arti, Napoli Art_Robe: Women Artists at the Nexus of Art and Fashion, UNESCO, Paris Femme, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence Cool & Warm, Sung-Kok Museum of Art, Seoul The Fifth Gospel, Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Slovenia The Missing Peace, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford Perception of the Horizontal, MUSEION, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano WATER, AIR, EARTH, FIRE - At the Origins of Life between Art and Science, Villa Croce, Geneva INGENIO 400, a commissioned web video project, La Fabrica, Madrid Video Spirit: Mysteries, Myths, Meditation and the Moving Image, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville |
| 2004 | Don’t call it performance, The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, El Museo del Barrio, New York, Traveled from Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid The 18th Rencontre Paralleles, Centre d’art Contemporain, Bass-Normandie The Ten Commandments, Hygiene Museum, Dresden Transcultures, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens PREMAculTURE, Hydra, Greece La Caja Negra - Utopias en Movimiento, Centro Atlantico Arte Moderno, Canary Islands Still Mapping the Moon - Perspective of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn Five Artists, Five Faiths: Spirituality and Contemporary Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The 1st Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland Work of the Work, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Contemporary Visions, Photographs and videos from the collection of Helga De Alvear, Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Oulu City Art Museum, Turku, Finland, MEIAC Art Museum, Badajoz, Spain Settlement, Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Etienne In Movement - Salutes Women Video Artists of the World, UNESCO, Paris HOMExtension, University Art Museum, Albany Playgrounds & Toys, La Manufacture des Oeillets, Paris Kunst Stoff, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien Out Video Festival, NCCA Yekaterinburg, Russia Raison et Sentiments - CRAC ALSACE, Altkirch Enlightment, Video Program, Jeu de Paume, Paris Artists on Journey, Seoul National University Museum, Seoul |
2003 | Ideal City - Solares, The 2nd Valencia Biennale, Valencia Lille 2004, Flower Power, Beaux-Art Museum, Lille Don’t call it performance, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid As Heavy as the Heavens, Transformations of Gravity, County Museum Joanneum, Graz, traveled to Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense Migration, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Lichtenstein Mind Space, Samsung Art Museum, Seoul Identity and Otherness, PHotoespaña, Circulo de Bella Artes, Madrid Multitudes – Solitudes, Museum and Ar/ge Kunst Galleria Museo, Bolzano Archives and Simulation, LisboaPhoto, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon Social Strategy, traveling show from University of California Art Museum, Santa Barbara to Austin Museum of Art, Austin The 10th Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva Pro Arte Video Festival, Hermitage Museum & Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Walking in the Street, Apex Art, New York, Traveled to Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Serene Beauty, Jamaica Art Center, New York Spotlight Reading, The Kitchen, New York Motion Studies, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York Traces of Friday - art, tourism, displacement, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| 2002 | Whitney Biennial, Central Park, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Tempo, Inauguration exhibition of MOMA Queens, New York Memory of Water, Spoleto Festival USA 2000, Charleston The 1st Busan Biennale, Metropolitan Museum, Busan The 2nd Photo Festival, Ganna Art, Total Museum, Seoul Refugee, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo Expo 2002 - Money & Value/ The Last Taboo, Biel, Switzerland Demeter, Tokachi International Contemporary Exhibition, Obihiro, Japan Aubes, Rêveries au bord de Victor Hugo, Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris Watching Ocean and Sky Together, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool Global Priority, JamaicaArt Center, New York Instruction for Actions, Kunsthalle Wien Crossing Cultures - Elementary Particle Art, Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag, Styria, Austria |
| 2001 | Markers, The 49th Venice Biennale, Venice ARS 01, KIASMA, Helsinki Art through the Eye of Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikedden, Norway Subject Plural, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Asian Contemporary Art, Duke University Modern Art Museum, Durham On the way to the Screen, International Artists House, Moscow Antro-a-Polosias, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia IMAGO MUNDI, CAPC Bordeaux Lost And Found, Apex Art, New York Unrealtime Video, Fine Arts Center, Seoul Going Places, Smart Art Space, Amsterdam Girls in the Image, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth |
| 2000 | Sharing Exotism, The 5th Biennale de Lyon 2000, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon Human-being and Gender, The 3rd Kwangju Biennale. Kwangju The Sky is the Limit, The 2nd Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Echigo - Tsumari,Tsumari Art Triennale 2000, Echigo – Tsmari, Japan Hypermental - Entre realite et chimieres 1950-2000, de Salvadore Dali a Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zurich Mutation, Arc en Reve d'Architecture, APC Bordeaux Art and Social Reality, High Commission for Refugee, Geneva From Here to There, Academie Scholoss Solitude, Stuttgart Playground & Toys for Refugee Children, Red Cross Museum, Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Traveled to UN, New York Today’s Korea Contemporary Sculpture, Moran Museum of Art, Namyangju, Korea Drive, Govette-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, New York Kim Sooja + Yang Pei Ming, Selfscape, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrick, Odense |
| 2000-1997 | Cities on the Move, Cesession, Vienna, traveled to Louisiana Museum of Art Copenhagen, Hayward Gallery, London, CAPC Bordeaux, KIASMA, Helsinki, P.S.1, New York |
| 1999 | d'APERTutto, The 48th Venice Biennale, Venice ArtWorlds in Dialogue - Global Art Rhineland 2000, Museum Ludwig, Cologne The 3rd Asia - Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane Kim Sooja + Jeannett Christensen, Inaugural Exhibition at Kunsthalle Feldbach, Feldbach |
| 1998 | The 24th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo Everyday, The 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Echolot, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel Loose Threads, Serpentine Gallery, London Warming, The Project, New York Medialization, Edsvik Art Center, Stockholm, traveled to Eesti Kunst Museum, Tallinn Slowness of Speed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Frame, Kumho Art Museum, Seoul |
| 1998-1996 | Traditions/Tensions, Asia Society, Gray Art Gallery, Queens Museum of Art, New York, traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, to Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
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| 1997 | On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties, The 5th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul De-Genderism, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 1996 | Manifesta 1, Museum Boymans Van-Beuningen, Rotterdam Inclusion/Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz The Scream - Borealis 8, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen Roles of the Couple, Soo Ja Kim / Toshihiro Kuno, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura Do It / Home Version, Museum in Progress, Vienna Home/Salon, The Clock Tower Gallery, New York Ceremonial, Apex Art, New York An Aspect of Korea Contemporary Art in the 90's, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, traveled to the International Museum of Osaka |
| 1995 | Division of Labor - Women's Work in Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, traveled to MOCA, L.A. The 1st KwangJu Biennale, KwangJu Tiger’s Tail - 12 Korean Contemporary Artists, Palazzo Vendramin, Venice, traveled to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwacheon Circulating Currents - Korean & Japanese Contemporary Artists, Nagoya City Museum, Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art, Nagoya 6.Triennale Kleinplastik 1995, Sud-West L.B, Stuttgart 16th International Bronze & Small Sculpture Biennale, Padova Light Box Project, Museum City Project, Fukuoka Stage work for Drawing the Sound, Whanki Museum, Seoul Information and Reality, FruitMarket Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1994 | Women - The Difference and the Power, Hankook Gallery, Seoul
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| 1993 | Trade Routes, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York In Their Own Images, P.S.1 Museum, New York Semblances, Ise Art Foundation, New York |
| 1992 | Triangle Workshop, Pine Plains, New York
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| 1991 | Ten Korean Women Artists, The National Museum Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., traveled to Seoul Arts Center, Seoul Inaugural Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art, SunJae Museum, Kyungju |
| 1990 | Impact 3 90, Gallery Humanite, Tokyo |
| 1989 | Berlin International Contemporary Art Festival, Municipal Museum, Berlin Young Artist Festival, Trade Center Hyundai Gallery, Seoul |
| 1988 | 88 Korea Contemporary Art Festival, National
Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
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| 1987 | The 8th International Impact Art Festival, Municipal
Museum, Kyoto |
| 1985 | 1984-85 French Governments scholars exhibition, Gallerie
Bernanos, Paris |
| 1984 | Korean Contemporary Art Festival, Municipal
Museum, Taipei |
| 1983 | 83 Seoul International Drawing Exhibition,
Fine Art Center, Seoul |
| 1979 | Breath, Kim Soo-ja/ Lee Yun-Dong, Growrich Gallery, Seoul
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Grants, Awards and Commissioned Work |
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| 2007 | Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2007 Grant Recipient, New York Commissioned work by Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France Commissioned work by Banque Société Générale, Paris |
| 2006 | Commissioned work by Museo de National Reina Sofia, Madrid on the occasion of the Solo Exhibition, To Breathe – A mirror woman (Respirar - Una mujer espejo), a site-specific installation at the Crystal Palace, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
| 2005 | Korea Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul INGENIO 400, a commissioned web video project by La Fabrica, Madrid |
| 2004-2003 | Grant from CEC ArtsLink, New York
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| 2003 | Nouveaux Commanditaires - Landscape Lighting Project & St. Bernard, Hospice Permanent Lighting Installation, St. Bernard, France, Commissioned by Consortium, Dijion, Sponsored by Fondation de France, Paris, and Olivietti Foundation, Rome |
| 2002 | Anonymous Was a Woman Award 2002, Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation, New York Artist of the American Art Award, Whitney Museum of America, Sponsored by Cartier Co., New York |
| 2001 | Korea Culture & Arts Foundation Awards, Seoul, Awards for the best show of the year 2000, from the Solo Exhibition of Rodin Gallery of Samsung Art Museum, Seoul
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| 2000 | Paradise Culture Foundation Awards 2000, Seoul Commissioned work by ICC, Tokyo on the occasion of solo Exhibition at ICC, Tokyo |
| 1999 | Commissioned work by CCA Kitakyushu on the occasion of the Solo Exhibition at CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
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| 1998 | World Views - Residency at World Trade Center, New York (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York) The Korean Culture & Art Foundation Grant, Seoul |
| 1997 | The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation’s Experimental Art Grant Paradise Culture Foundation, Seoul |
| 1996 | The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul |
| 1992-3 | Artists in residence, P.S.1 Museum, New York, Supported by The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul |
| 1992 | The 11th Suk-Nam Fine Art Award, Seoul |
| 1991 | Song-Un Culture Foundation, Seoul |
| 1984 | Lithography studio at Ecole National des Beaux-Art, French Government’s Scholarship |